Job Opportunity for Consultant – Soft Skills Trainer at AIF in Ahmedabad

Position – Consultant 

Role – Soft Skills Trainer 

Number of position – Two (2)  

Program – Livelihoods 

Location – Ahmedabad, Gujarat 

Position Type – Consultancy  

Reporting To – Centre Manager (BACI)  

Duration – 5 months  

Background  

The American India Foundation Trust is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with  a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high impact  interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Through its  unique value proposition, working closely with local communities, the Foundation partners with NGOs to  develop and test innovative solutions and with governments to create and scale sustainable impact.  Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian  initiative by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji and Bill Clinton, AIFT has impacted the lives of 16.51 million of India’s  poor across 36 States and Union Territories of India. Learn more at https://aif-india.org 

About the Livelihoods Program  

AIFT’s Livelihoods program envisions a world where poor and vulnerable communities have access to  dignified work opportunities, empowering them with sustainable livelihoods. Since 2006, Livelihoods  program has directly and indirectly served 1.4 million beneficiaries. The program takes a unique market  relevant approach, while leveraging technology to provide knowledge, skills, and opportunities to  underprivileged youth, marginalized women and Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) to secure jobs, manage  enterprises, and make a respectable living. To enable a razor-sharp focus on the country’s livelihood  issues, AIFT has also initiated the Market Aligned Skills Foundation (MASF), a Section-8 company  envisioned as a social start-up. Multiple innovations have been introduced to resurrect lives and  livelihoods upended by COVID-19. Removing systemic barriers like long duration of loan approvals, and  default in loan repayments; Project Entre-Prerana is creating robust financial linkages by engaging an  innovative AI enabled underwriting and loan disbursal platform. Leveraging technology to mine and meet  inclusive and remote job opportunities in the post-COVID era, AIFT’s one of its kind AI-enabled platform,  “Inclusive Jobs Portal https://inclusivejobs.in,” aims to bring together equal opportunity and inclusive  employers with talented candidates from the underserved communities of Persons with Disabilities  (PWDs), and the “Remote Jobs Portal- https://remote.inclusivejobs.in/” aims to create synergies to match organizations looking for a diverse pool of qualified and skilled women aspirants, from  inaccessible, rural, remote and aspirational districts around the country. 

About The Project 

Project “Engage 2 Empower (E2E)” is India’s first of its kind program, which deeply engages the corporate  employee volunteers as equal participants in creating a career pathway, through skill enhancement and  job access, of marginalized youth, especially females and persons with disabilities. It has been envisaged  as a completely virtual program. 

Key deliverables:  

Main Responsibilities: 

• To induct and orient on course and entire training program in the pre-training phase.

 • To deliver classroom session as per curriculum using different learning techniques and achieving  the outcome. 

• To ensuring retention of candidates in the training program and keep a check on the dropouts.

 • To develop and administer assessments or quizzes to evaluate candidates’ learning progress and  knowledge retention 

• Daily calling of absentee candidates and counselling them. 

• Generating referrals for the programs using different techniques 

• To Conduct mentor sessions on daily basis to improve the training quality. 

• To ensure at least 80 percent pass percentage 

• To support in revision of curriculum and revision of content and developing and designing  training programs, modules, and materials that align with the learning objectives and the needs  of the target audience. 

• To ensure there is no leakage in the batch and the batch follows lesson plan tracker.

 • To monitor and evaluate candidate documents 

• To handle student queries in terms of training and placement in timely manner. 

Additional Responsibilities 

Mobilization 

• To assess and evaluate candidates on aptitude test both on technical and soft skill to check  candidates’ level of understanding post mobilization. 

• Generating referrals for the programs using different quality techniques and calling candidates  to the center for the counselling sessions

• To Support in training counselling of mobilized candidates as and when required by addressing  their questions, concerns, and providing guidance. 

Placement 

• To Conduct career guidance and job readiness workshops, including resume building, interview  skills, and workplace etiquette and facilitate mock interviews and provide feedback to help  candidates improve their interview performance. 

• To Monitor the progress of candidates during the placement phase and provide support as  needed, where all candidates need to participate in the interview process. 

• Conduct follow-up sessions to gather feedback from placement team for rejected candidates to  identify area of improvements 

• To support in the retention of the candidate post placement. 

Key Skills and Competencies:  

1. Bachelor’s degree in psychology/communication/English/human resources/humanity, or related  field 

2. Master Degree in psychology/communication/English/human resources/humanity, or related  field 

3. Four (4) plus years’ previous experience as Softskills/Lifeskills/Employability skills trainer or  related positions 

4. Skilled in 21st century employability skills training delivery  

5. Well informed of labor market trends, employer needs and best practices in career services. 6. Excellent communication skills –both written and verbal 

7. Knowledge of local language (written and spoken) 

8. Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel), and  instructional software 

9. Strong presentation skills 

10. Openness to students and colleagues from a range of cultures and languages.

11. Experience with technologies and best practices for instructional manuals  

12. Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management

13. Organized and able to create multiple timelines, budgets, and schedules 

14. Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently 

15. Ability to work under pressure and disciplined 

Other: Monthly fees commensurate with experience.  

Position Availability: Immediately 

Application Process: To apply for this position, send your CV and covering letter describing how you meet  the specifications for this role and what you bring to it by applying below.

Only applications of short-listed candidates will be acknowledged.